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Another Dring update on sales in the UK, and this time Astro is the fastest-selling original platformer besides Mario games in the last decade.  I'm sorry but the turnaround on this from his reporting has been pretty hilarious to follow

I'm not even sure that the Switch 2 will be powerful enough to process all the memes in Revengeance 

It definitely looks like a game I didn't enjoy as much as I expected to on PS3, but still.. Where's my Switch version?

Completed the game last night: Anyway, looks like it took me exactly 20 hours for 100% completion, all souvenirs, scoops, secrets and achievements. With the exception of a couple of stages (isometric auto scrollers ) I really enjoyed the game, but looking back on it without my Goemon goggles I'd say it probably won't have quite as much appeal to anyone who doesn't have an affinity to the Goemon series, or an interest in quirky Japanese stuff in general. I'd definitely still recommend it to anyone that's a fan of the 3D platform genre though, as it's a well designed game with lovely presentation and plenty of charm, just know that it's unlikely to be very challenging and the combat controls might be a bit marmite too. (Yeah, the L+R button thing never did entirely click for me, even found myself briefly mashing the X button to try and attack on a few occasions! ) You're also likely to learn quite a lot of funny, pointless or even (at times) surprising facts, mainly about Japan but also various bodily functions, so I guess the game can be considered educational as well. I actually had to look this one up afterwards (Scoop's Trivia #221): Bloody hell! No wonder I never noticed that change.    

Only played the first day of Pikmin last weekend on Switch and I will get back to it soon but the pointer controls feel frustratingly restrictive after how amazing they are in Pikmin 3. I have played more of Super Mario Galaxy this week, though. I'm up to 56 stars now with Luigi 😃 I knew I wouldn't like it.. but what I didn't expect was to feel actually sick after playing Portal. Either it's an frustrating case of motion sickness or my body is finding new ways to be repulsed by critically acclaimed games beyond my mental disgust!